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I hear story #1 periodically, but almost never see a quote. How is this stuff said specifically? It always seems like hearsay. I'm sure it's authentic, but I'd love to hear the details on how that stuff is actually said in conversation.

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Someone asked him this down the thread. He replied that it was said to him. So it’s a first party account.

It's interesting he provides quotes for the other stories, but not this one. And still doesn't in the thread. Again, i'm not debating the authenticity, but is it possible he's inferring that based on something not-so-explicit being said?

I'd love to see/hear the words that people actually say when I hear stories like "they said they wouldn't [invest/buy/etc] from me because i'm a woman".

Maybe he wrote his first tweet then thought of putting direct quotes in the next two. Not everything needs to be a conspiracy.

When I studied comp sci in the early 00s, a prof just flat out told us in a male-only class that women had no place in comp sci. I'm not at all surprised that shitty men are open about their thoughts on women when they assume that they are talking to people who agree with them.

In 2015, working at a software consultancy. Led a small project, delivered it, client was happy, moved onto the next project, thought nothing more of it.

At the company Christmas party that year (which had clients invited, for reasons I do not know) - that client merrily said to my face "boy, I thought the project was going to fail with a woman in charge, but you sure proved me wrong!"

Apparently I had murder written all over my face, and coworkers who overheard were impressed I didn't deck him.

Really sad that people are still walking around with those beliefs.

I came across this thread on twitter this morning but isn't he the CEO / co-founder and he's clearly a man? I guess I don't get the reference. I know he has a co-founder who's a female, maybe she was lead at the time?

"1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. "

He's referring to Michelle Zatlyn afaict.

"Young Global Leader '14. Co-founder, President + COO Cloudflare"

The fact that you hear this often (also not only from the victims of this) should signal that, even without quotes, there is likely some truth to it.

This doesn’t follow logically.

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